Re: Magic Word / trackback plugin

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, shunuhs wrote:

> I think, in trackback plugin, when cdict dictionary have the data
> indicate trackback, other plugin can check which comment or trackback
> data safely, such a following code.
...
> -                      'description' : form.getvalue('excerpt', '') }
> +                      'description' : form.getvalue('excerpt', ''), \
> +                      'comment_type' : 'trackback' }

on second thought, this is an interesting idea. however, i suspect the spec 
already provides an official way to identify trackback pings:

http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec

if you're still interested in contributing this fix upstream, would you mind 
looking at the spec to find the "right" way to identify trackbacks?

-Ryan

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